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Solderless WaveMaker Mystery?

redfishbluefish

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I think this beats Malulu's "Wavemaker made easy" (http://www.njreefers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=13714.msg127369#msg127369) because this one doesn't require any soldering. Now if only I could figure it out!

The sump was overfilled because salinity was a little off. After a couple of minutes, a wave starts in the "return" section of the sump. So I stop all pumps and let everything settle. Restart the pumps and within a minute the wave starts back up again. Now I know about harmonics with materials and wavelength nodes with design...that classical video we saw in design engineering of that suspension bridge that had the support towers just at the right distance to start the bridge-a-wave'n until it snapped. But this has me scratching my head. I'd like to figure this out and do the same thing in the display to get a wave going without Malulu's easy soldering tricks. Here's a video of the wave:

 
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